She said: “I trusted him a lot more. That made him closer to me. He was my friend, my lover, I guess.”

He also ‘advised’ her to invest most of the money she had received into a startup oilfield services company he knew full well was a sham. Ms Cantu followed his advice and invested $900,000 of her legal settlement in FourWinds Logistics.

As he promised her riches, she got more and more into him. On a visit to his law offices for a meeting on the FourWinds project, Mr Uresti would pull her into a restroom “where she performed oral sex on him.”

Ms Cantu said he took her into the restroom at his law office and liked to have sex with her in the shower: “I knew he was married, but we would still be intimate at times. He was a good friend. We could talk about anything.”

“One time he told me he was at mall with his wife. He was going to go into a stall and take pictures of his penis and send them to me.”